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-- Forty-one :[2014]., Adult, Crown Publishers Call No: Bio B978b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific flying torpedo bombers in the Navy during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and President. The book shines new light on both the accomplished statesman and the warm, decent man known best by his family. In addition, George W. Bush discusses his father<U+2019>s influence on him throughout his own life, from his childhood in West Texas to his early campaign trips with his father, and from his decision to go into politics to his own two-term Presidency.
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2008., General, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Across Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
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2003, p1997., Adult, Lions Gate Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Affliction Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When events shatter the quiet life of his small New Hampshire town, Sheriff Wade Whitehouse, with the aid of his girlfriend, is forced to confront his past and reexamine his life. Determined to fill the emptiness, he must either stand tall against his childhood demons or fall victim to his father's abusive ways.
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By Wyld, Eviec2009., Pantheon Books Call No: Fic Wyl Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fleeing to an ocean shack to escape painful memories and a relationship gone bad, Frank is unable to find the solitude he craves; while Vietnam veteran Leon explores the ways in which war destroyed both his and his Korean veteran father's family lives.
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By Gaiman, Neilc2005., William Morrow Call No: Fic Gai Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2011., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Call No: Fic Mat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Nuri first sees Mona, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri's father with whom Mona falls in love and will eventually marry. Their happiness consumes Nuri to the point at which he longs to get his father out of the way. However, Nuri will soon regret what he wished for. As the world he shares with his stepmother is shattered by events beyond their control, they both begin to realize how little they really knew about the man they loved."--Publisher.
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-- Angel makerc2012., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Har Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
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c2011., General, House of Anansi Press Call No: Fic Coa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Due to his size, but against his true nature, Gordon Rankin ("Rank") has always been cast in the role of enforcer. After tragedy strikes, he disappears. Almost twenty years later, he discovers that an old friend has written a novel mirroring his life. The betrayal leads Rank to finally confront the tragedy he's been running from.
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By Gruen, Sara2015., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Gru Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army colonel who is already embarrassed by his son's inability to serve in WWII due to color-blindness. Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and, when he finds it, he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good graces (and pocketbook). Joined by their friend Hank, a wealthy socialite, the three make their way to Scotland in the midst of war. Each day, the two men go off to hunt the monster, while another monster, Hitler, is devastating Europe. Meanwhile, Maddie undergoes a social awakening: to the harsh realities of life, to the beauties of nature, to a connection with forces larger than herself, to female friendship, and, finally, to love.
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By Gruen, Sara2015., Random House Large Print Call No: LP Fic Gru Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Yearœs Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellisœs father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his sonœs inability to serve in WWII due to his being colorblind. To Maddieœs horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his fatherœs favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his fatherœs name and return to his fatherœs good graces (and pocketbook). Joined by their friend Hank, a wealthy socialite, the three make their way to Scotland in the midst of war. Each day the two men go off to hunt the monster, while another monster, Hitler, is devastating Europe. And Maddie, now alone in a foreign country, must begin to figure out who she is and what she wants. The novel tells of Maddieœs social awakening: to the harsh realities of life, to the beauties of nature, to a connection with forces larger than herself, to female friendship, and finally, to love.
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-- Les invasions barbares[2004], p2003., Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm Call No: DVD Fic Barbarian Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Examines the varying personal politics - economic and sexual - at play among an aging group of friends, lovers, and ex-spouses. Remy and Louise are divorced. Their son Sebastien lives in capitalist splendor in London. Their estranged daughter sails boats throughout the world. But the slightly estranged family is brought together by Remy's losing battle with terminal cancer, and the hedonistic, ex-radical father and straight-laced son have to overcome their differences.
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2023., Adult, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic For Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Frank Bascombe book. Volume: 5Summary Note: The final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe. Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives-- sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent-- Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
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c2010., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Fic Wie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Every night novelist Christopher Knox reads to his son David from an obscure fantasy novel. One night, when David is reading the book alone, an inexplicable seizure leaves him in a mysterious state of unconsciousness. As his seizure recurs every night, his father learns that only one thing will calm it, a bedtime story from this strange new book. Both father and son are headed towards a fateful collision of worlds, and a showdown of ancient evils, both fictional and very real.
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By Nieh, Daniel2019., Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYS Fic Nie Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder. Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur, in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China's leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father's secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.
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By Nieh, Daniel2019., Adult, HarperCollins Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: "Propulsive. . . . Highly enjoyable. . . . It sets up a sequel, one that I very much look forward to reading." -The New York Times Book Review A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur-in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China's leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father's secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.
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2021., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Fic Pow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, even while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one.
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-- Ladri de biciclette.[2007], p1948., General, Criterion Collection ; Distributed by Image Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Bicycle Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Criterion collection Volume: 374.Summary Note: In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.